345: F# Envy

Published: Feb. 19, 2019, 6 p.m.

The guys discuss the real last bastion of scratch your own itch, and debate the merits of recent C# functional programing fads that are transforming the language.

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Plus Mike\u2019s swimming in hardware, and a new movement sweeping the web that starts right here.

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